College Bound Reading List
| Adams, Richard |
Watership Down |
| Aesop |
Fables |
| Agee, James |
A Death in the Family |
| Anderson, Sherwood |
Winesburg, Ohio |
| Anonymous |
Go Ask Alice |
| Asimov, Isaac |
Short Stories |
| Austen, Jane |
Emma, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility |
| Baldwin, James |
Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| Balzac, Honore de |
Pere Goriot |
| Beckett, Samuel |
Waiting for Godot |
| Bolt, Robert |
A Man for All Seasons |
| Brontë, Charlotte |
Jane Eyre |
| Brontë, Emily |
Wuthering Heights |
| Brooks, Gwendolyn |
In the Mecca Riot |
| Browning, Robert |
Poems |
| Buck, Pearl |
The Good Earth |
| Butler, Samuel |
The Way of All Flesh |
| Camus, Albert |
The Plague, The Stranger |
| Cather, Willa |
Death Comes for the Archbishop, My Antonia |
| Cervantes, Miguel |
Don Quixote |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey |
The Canterbury Tales |
| Chekhov, Anton |
The Cherry Orchard |
| Chopin, Kate |
The Awakening |
| Collins, Wilkie |
The Moonstone |
| Conrad, Joseph |
Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Shaver, Victory |
| Crane, Stephen |
The Red Badge of Courage |
| Dante |
The Divine Comedy |
| Defoe, Daniel |
Moll Flanders |
| Dickens, Charles |
Bleak House, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities |
| Dickinson, Emily |
Poems |
| Dinesen, Isak |
Out of Africa |
| Dostoevski, Fyodor |
The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment |
| Douglas, Frederick |
The Life of Frederick Douglas |
| Dreiser, Theodore |
An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie |
| Early, Gerald |
Tuxedo Junction |
| Eliot, George |
Adam Bede, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner |
| Eliot, T. S. |
Murder in the Cathedral |
| Ellison, Ralph |
Invisible Man |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
Essays |
| Faulkner, William |
Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, Intruder in the Dust, Light in August, The Sound and the Fury |
| Fielding, Henry |
Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night |
| Flaubert, Gustave |
Madame Bovary |
| Forster, E. M. |
A Passage to India, A Room with a View |
| Franklin, Benjamin |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
| Galsworthy, John |
The Forsyte Saga |
| Golding, William |
Lord of the Flies |
| Goldsmith, Oliver |
She Stoops to Conquer |
| Graves, Robert |
I, Claudius |
| Greene, Graham |
The Heart of the Matter, The Power and the Glory |
| Hamilton, Edith |
Mythology |
| Hardy, Thomas |
Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Return of the Native, Tess of the D’Urbervilles |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
The House of the Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises |
| Henry, O. |
Stories |
| Hersey, John |
A Single Pebble |
| Hesse, Hermann |
Demian, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf |
| Homer |
The Iliad, The Odyssey |
| Hughes, Langston |
Poems, The Big Sea |
| Hugo, Victor |
Les Misérables |
| Huxley, Aldous |
Brave New World |
| Ibsen, Henrik |
A Doll House, An Enemy of the People, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder, The Wild Duck |
| James, Henry |
The American, Daisy Miller, Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw |
| Joyce, James |
Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man |
| Kafka, Franz |
The Castle, The Metamorphosis, The Trial |
| Keats, John |
Poems |
| Kerouac, Jack |
On the Road |
| Koestler, Arthur |
Darkness at Noon |
| Lawrence, Jerome, and Robert E. Lee |
Inherit the Wind |
| Lewis, Sinclair |
Arrowsmith, Babbitt, Main Street |
| Llewellyn, Richard |
How Green Was My Valley |
| Machiavelli, Niccolo |
The Prince |
| MacLeish, Archibald |
J.B. |
| Mann, Thomas |
Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain |
| Marlowe, Christopher |
Dr. Faustus |
| Maugham, Somerset |
Of Human Bondage |
| McCullers, Carson |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
| Melville, Herman |
Billy Budd, Moby-Dick, Typee |
| Miller, Arthur |
The Crucible, Death of a Salesman |
| Monsarrat, Nicholas |
The Cruel Sea |
| Naylor, Gloria |
Bailey’s Cafe, The Women of Brewster Place |
| O’Neill, Eugene |
The Emperor Jones, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Mourning Becomes Electra |
| Orwell, George |
Animal Farm, 1984 |
| Pasternak, Boris |
Doctor Zhivago |
| Poe, Edgar Allan |
Short Stories |
| Remarque, Erich |
All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Rolvaag, O. E. |
Giants in the Earth |
| Rostand, Edmond |
Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Salinger, J. D. |
The Catcher in the Rye |
| Sandburg, Carl |
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years |
| Saroyan, William |
The Human Comedy |
| Sayers, Dorothy |
The Nine Tailors |
| Shakespeare, William |
Plays and Sonnets |
| Shaw, George Bernard |
Arms and the Man, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Saint Joan |
| Sheridan, Richard B. |
The School for Scandal |
| Shute, Nevil |
On the Beach |
| Sinclair, Upton |
The Jungle |
| Sophocles |
Antigone, Oedipus Rex |
| Steinbeck, John |
East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men |
| Stowe, Harriet Beecher |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| Swift, Jonathan |
Gulliver’s Travels |
| Thackeray, William M. |
Vanity Fair |
| Thoreau, Henry David |
Walden |
| Tolstoy, Leo |
Anna Karenina, War and Peace |
| Trollope, Anthony |
Barchester Towers |
| Turgenev, Ivan |
Fathers and Sons |
| Twain, Mark |
Pudd’nhead Wilson |
| Updike, John |
Rabbit, Run |
| Vergil |
The Aeneid |
| Voltaire |
Candide |
| Walker, Alice |
The Color Purple, Meridian |
| Warren, Robert Penn |
All the King’s Men |
| Waugh, Evelyn |
Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust |
| Wharton, Edith |
The Age of Innocence |
| White, T. H. |
The Once and Future King, The Sword in the Stone |
| Wilde, Oscar |
The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Wilder, Thornton |
Our Town |
| Williams, Tennessee |
The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Wolfe, Thomas |
Look Homeward, Angel |
| Woolf, Virginia |
Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse |
| Wouk, Herman |
The Caine Mutiny |
| Wright, Richard |
Black Boy, Native Sun |
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